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Review: Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture

User Review - Tayler K - Goodreads

Some really interesting explanations for why people in different cultures do or don't eat different things, from perspectives that make sense but most of us wouldn't think about. Humanity is, at least in some ways, more efficient than you would think.Read full review

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I dish finally come around to appreciating him, even his approach.Read full review

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About the author (1985)

Marvin Harris is an American anthropologist who was educated at Columbia University, where he spent much of his professional career. Beginning with studies on race relations, he became the leading proponent of cultural materialism, a scientific approach that seeks the causes of human behavior and culture change in survival requirements. His explanations often reduce to factors such as population growth, resource depletion, and protein availability. A controversial figure, Harris is accused of slighting the role of human consciousness and of underestimating the symbolic worlds that humans create. He writes in a style that is accessible to students and the general public, however, and his books have been used widely as college texts.